Death threats for bouncer as nation mourns Hookes

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THE bouncer alleged to have caused David Hookes’s tragic death outside a hotel in the St Kilda suburb of Melbourne on Sunday night was yesterday charged with manslaughter by homicide detectives. Zdravko Micevic, 21, who came to Australia from Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, was bailed by magistrates after he had paid a surety of AUS$2,000 (about £845) and will face the charges in April. In March, he will appear in court to answer another assault charge that dates back to December 2002.

Micevic’s lawyers claim that he has received death threats and hate mail after the alleged punching of